Tomorrow, this woman celebrates her last day with beer

BOGOTA – Woman Colombia This will end life on Sunday (10/10/2021) tomorrow with euthanasia or lethal injection. He joked with his son by drinking beer to celebrate the last day of his life.

Martha Sepúlveda Campo, 51, smiles at the television camera while joking with her son. His request for euthanasia was granted by the competent authorities to end the illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS he has.

“From a spiritual level, I am completely calm,” said Sepúlveda, who defines himself as “a very faithful Catholic”, in an interview with a Colombian television network, Snail News.

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Sepúlveda will be the first patient with a non-terminal illness to receive euthanasia in Colombia, a country considered a pioneer in the right to a dignified death, both in Latin America and globally.

“God doesn’t want to see me suffer, and I believe that no one, no parent wants to see their children suffer,” said Sepúlveda, who has suffered from a degenerative disease since 2019.

Over time, her symptoms got worse, until she could no longer walk unaided. The diagnosis is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, a disease of the nervous system that affects the body’s mobility.

“In the circumstances that I have, the best thing that can happen to me is to rest,” he said.

Colombia was the first country in Latin America to decriminalize euthanasia, starting in 1997 to be precise. It is also one of the few countries in the world where the procedure is legal. But until this year, it was only allowed in cases of terminal illness.

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